thats awful about your Dad, they should be hauled over the coals for that. you should sendt a copy to the local paper.
Ive got to admit i am pretty livid about the library situation, I use both Manchester's business library and keep an eye on Bolton's library but to be honest i want to run out of Bolton library in jiffy. It smells, (of wee and old people) the staff are miserable and unhelpfull, the books are tatty and messy, mostly scruffed up paperbacks, with pages falling out as they dont buy hardbacks any more. Half of them are refusing to install e-book technology, which todays modern peeps demand. Their ref sections need a good dust and trying to find a ref book 1990 onwards is extremley difficult, without going on a waiting list of six weeks.
If they are going to survive then they need more money, and that means fundraising. They cant compete anymore against cheap books in the supermarkets, charity bookstores and even brand new fiction books are not as expensive in comparison to what they were in the 1980's when i used the libraries a lot.
Only a good reference section, business intelligence support, best uptodate journals and e-tech will get people using the libraries again. And it seems the only libraries that can afford to do this is city centre libraries, not even the satellite towns can manage.
Ive been trying to get Manchester library to install ebooks for months, i had to join liverpool! yet ive not been up to activate it yet.
grrr.
I dont want libraries to close down, but they have got to shake themselves up.
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Ive got to admit i am pretty livid about the library situation, I use both Manchester's business library and keep an eye on Bolton's library but to be honest i want to run out of Bolton library in jiffy. It smells, (of wee and old people) the staff are miserable and unhelpfull, the books are tatty and messy, mostly scruffed up paperbacks, with pages falling out as they dont buy hardbacks any more. Half of them are refusing to install e-book technology, which todays modern peeps demand. Their ref sections need a good dust and trying to find a ref book 1990 onwards is extremley difficult, without going on a waiting list of six weeks.
If they are going to survive then they need more money, and that means fundraising. They cant compete anymore against cheap books in the supermarkets, charity bookstores and even brand new fiction books are not as expensive in comparison to what they were in the 1980's when i used the libraries a lot.
Only a good reference section, business intelligence support, best uptodate journals and e-tech will get people using the libraries again. And it seems the only libraries that can afford to do this is city centre libraries, not even the satellite towns can manage.
Ive been trying to get Manchester library to install ebooks for months, i had to join liverpool! yet ive not been up to activate it yet.
grrr.
I dont want libraries to close down, but they have got to shake themselves up.